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Court loss won't stop environmentalists' battle against modified-eucalyptus trees
"We're not terribly discouraged," said Anne Petermann, executive director of the Global Justice Ecology Project and the coordinator of the STOP GE Trees Campaign. "We'll wait until the next stage of the regulatory process and intervene there," said
Updated: 10/23/2011 01:04A
North trial: Second week marked by delays
Multiple recesses plagued the second week of James Christopher North's murder trial as court was halted for witnesses to be flown into town, blood work to be examined, and an audio recording to be reviewed. On Friday, the second of two recesses last
Updated: 10/23/2011 01:03A
Missouri faces two court cases over insolvent Second Injury Fund
Workers' compensation attorneys have known for years the Second Injury Fund's revenue couldn't continue to meet its growing obligations, said Sharon Jones, director of government relations for the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys.
Updated: 10/23/2011 01:02A
Spectrum of charges against all accused in 2G
New Delhi: Former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi and 15 others including top corporate honchos will be put on trial in the multi-crore 2G spectrum scam with a Delhi Court on Saturday framing charges against them on various counts like
Updated: 10/23/2011 12:53A
30 years on, man convicted of step-daughter death
A French father won a 30-year quest for justice for his dead daughter on Saturday after a German doctor he had kidnapped and delivered to the French courts to face charges was convicted of her killing. A Paris court sentenced Dieter Krombach, 76,
Updated: 10/23/2011 12:48A
Abilene attorney weighs in on law of self-defense in relation to North trial
Playing out in the 350th District Court this month has been the James Christopher North murder trial. North, 45, is claiming self-defense in the Feb. 9 fatal shooting of Austin Dale David. "You only have the right to defend yourself with deadly force
Updated: 10/23/2011 12:45A
Delhi Becomes First State to Have Children's Courts
Around 450 cases have been registered in the 11 children's courts in the national capital since July when they became functional in Delhi, the first state to open such facilities for the speedy trial of
Updated: 10/23/2011 12:44A
After 30 years, a German doctor has been found guilty of his step-daughter's death
Bamberski will eventually face court himself for the vigilante action which caused a media sensation. Krombach, who went on trial on October 4, was convicted of "deliberate violence leading to involuntary death" at Paris' main criminal court,
Updated: 10/23/2011 12:44A
Vegas teen pleads not guilty in death penalty case
8, 2011 photo, Javier Righetti, 19, makes his initial appearance on charges of the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Righetti entered a not guilty plea in court Thursday Oct. 20.
Updated: 10/23/2011 12:34A
CBI charges the full 2G spectrum brigade
Nearly two years and ten months after the 2G spectrum “criminal conspiracy” was allegedly hatched and executed, a special CBI trial court framed the charges against former telecom minister A Raja,
Updated: 10/23/2011 12:33A